In 2019, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, the story of survival and suffering by and about Sim Kessel was published. The young Frenchman, Jew and professional boxer, wrote his autobiography about the years 1940-45 in 1969, describing how he survived against all odds in Auschwitz and other concentration and extermination camps of the Nazi regime.

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